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Originally Posted by shinew
Those are terrible comparisons. If people were to compare them like that, one could argue that if you want to look up a word right in the middle of the page, say 15th line & 6th word, without the touch screen it'll take you 20 clicks,
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Nonsense. You can hold the five-way down and do the look up with barely having to change your hand position. (I'm sure touch is somewhat more efficient for this, but not nearly so much as the far more applicable "back" example you are trying to refute.)
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but to say the Touch is mostly a step backward in comparison to its predecessor is ridiculous.
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Not ridiculous in the slightest. It is a step backwards to have to bring another hand into play to do what could previously be done one-handed, or to have to risk dirtying your screen to do common operations, or to need to use your eyes for what you could previously do by feel. Those factors may not be important to
you, so it may not be a step back for
you but to call it ridiculous seems to be a sign of either closed-mindedness or arrogance (I wouldn't presume to judge by guessing which.
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ApK